France to open its first Islamic high school

Arab News ^ | PARIS, 12 December 2002 | By Paul Michaud, Special to Arab News

[dennisw]

France to open its first Islamic high school
By Paul Michaud, Special to Arab News
Published on 12 December 2002

PARIS, 12 December 2002 — Although France has had an important Islamic population (a lie or Muslim fantasy, you decide) that goes back to the start of its own history, the French Muslim community will be getting its own Islamic high school — the Ecole Averroes — only next year. Indeed, inscriptions will be taken as of January, and the school will start offering courses come September, at the same time as traditional governmentally-operated French schools.

Named for the celebrated philosopher whose writings on Aristotelian metaphysics had such an enormous impact on the thought of Christian France of the Middle Ages, the school is to open for the 2003-2004 school year next Fall and will occupy a full floor of the building in Lille, France, that has heretofore served as the headquarters of the Ligue Islamique du Nord, the Muslim League of the North.

Makhlouf Mameche, the man who has fought so many years to impose the idea and who will quite appropriately become Ecole Averroes’ first director, says that as far as he’s concerned, an Islamic lycee for France was a dire necessity, a way of telling the French that the country’s Islamic community was capable of establishing its own educational institutions, just as have, for example, French Catholics, who over the years have given France an important educational infrastructure, indeed attracting students from other religions, which is something that Mameche would like to do too.

“Besides offering the identical curriculum offered by traditional French schools of the same educational level,” adds Mameche, “we’ll also provide special instruction in Islamic civilization and religion.”

And just like the Catholics and other religious communities who have officially-recognized schools in France, Mameche says that the Ecole Averroes expects to sign a contract with the French government so that the degrees it offers will be just as legitimate as those proposed by the establishments of other religions.

[dennisw]

Some European nations will fund your religious school. I cannot say if France is one. My guess would be yes. That the taxpayers pay for this school. I'm sure they will HAVE TO bring over all kinds of Muslims to teach there. Maybe a few loony mullahs too? Would it be too much to ask FRance to pay their wages too?

[richardtavor]

Another hate indoctrination center and suicide bombing 101

[dennisw]

[EggsAckley]

silly frogs. they've been on simmer for years. now they're turning up the heat themselves.

[dennisw]

That's a good line. A new spin on a scientific fact.

[Texas_Jarhead]

bulkanization/diversity kills BUMP

[johniegrad]

Touching!

[jriemer]

An important line has been crossed in France and its a slippery slope between running state-funded religious Islamic schools and Maddrasses (sp).

The main question is: When should we start a Free Republic betting pool for when Islamic Law replaces the Napoleonic Code as the law of the land for France?

jriemer

[Nix 2]

Why, how very, ummmm, French of them.

[tessalu]

The Islamics said that they would take over France.

[dennisw]

An important line has been crossed in France and its a slippery slope between running state-funded religious Islamic schools and Maddrasses (sp).

The main question is: When should we start a Free Republic betting pool for when Islamic Law replaces the Napoleonic Code as the law of the land for France?

 

 

 

POLL by little green footballs website

 

Poll Results

Which European or Scandinavian country do you think will be first to institute Islamic law (shari'a)?

England	221	5.9%
France	1680	44.5%
Belgium	256	6.8%
The Netherlands	798	21.1%
Sweden	337	8.9%
Norway	199	5.3%
Denmark	285	7.5%
Total votes: 3776

back to little green footballs

 

 

[weikel]

I think im going to be sick. France has a death wish. Lets face it all the manly French were killed off in the Napoleanic wars and WWI while all the manly Germans got killed in WWI and yes fighting for the nazis. Europe is dying in an orgy of self loathing and postmodernism.

[happygrl]

And the Saudis and Sudanese will open their Christian academies...when ?

[Travis McGee]

How many years until the headline reads

"France Closes Its Last Non-Islamic High School?"

[MoGalahad]

How sad. I wonder what Charles Martel would think of his nation granting and paying for educational facilities for his culture's greatest enemies.

[MoGalahad]

Excellent description of the Islamic colonists, Browning.

[sheik yerbouty]

Jihad 101. pis$ be unto them.